(not So) Hard To Handle
by American Way Staff
But Huler is a thoughtful traveler as well, aware
that the journey is always more important than the destination. And
Odysseus's journey, he argues, isn't written for the schoolkids
upon whom it's foisted. It's for middle-aged people who've faced
difficult trials of their own. No six-headed monsters, perhaps, but
struggles with mortality and a quest for a legacy just the same. -
Kristin Baird Rattini
The Artist Formerly Known as Ruthless
Machiavelli may not be as Machiavellian as you
think.
The Book: The Prince, translation by Peter
Constantine (Modern Library, $8). In stores March 11.
It's funny how some people get remembered. For
instance, nobody hears the name of Mexican General Antonio de Padua
María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón and says,
"Sure, he killed everyone at the Alamo, but he's the reason we have
chewing gum."
Niccolò Machiavelli is another case in point. Today,
we remember him for his 1514 work, The Prince, and we
ascribe to both the author and anyone we deem Machiavellian the
qualities of ruthlessness and arrogance. But is that what
Machiavelli really was? A new translation of The Prince
may help answer that question.
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